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HTML5 and the Future of the Mobile Web

Presenter: Patrick Carey, Carey Associates
Which way to the future of mobile computing? Does the future belong to native apps downloaded from proprietary apps stores and tailor-designed for specific operating systems or is HTML5 the future with its support across a variety of mobile devices and platforms? Or is the future a hybrid of both approaches?

HTML5 and the Future of the Mobile Web

Presenter: Patrick Carey, Carey Associates
Which way to the future of mobile computing? Does the future belong to native apps downloaded from proprietary apps stores and tailor-designed for specific operating systems or is HTML5 the future with its support across a variety of mobile devices and platforms? Or is the future a hybrid of both approaches?

Slide 16 - 2015 Cengage Learning Computing Conference

When I’m introspective about the last few years, I think the biggest mistake that we made as a company is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native. Because it just wasn’t there …

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… One of the things that’s interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.